Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!lll-lcc!ames!vsi1!daver!mips!earl@wright.mips.com From: earl@wright.mips.com (Earl Killian) Newsgroups: comp.arch Subject: Re: "big endian" and "little endian" Message-ID: <10728@wright.mips.COM> Date: 5 Jan 89 17:25:24 GMT Sender: earl@mips.COM Organization: MIPS Computer Systems, Sunnyvale CA Lines: 5 The thing I like about little endian is that for fixed point arithmetic, the point is in a fixed place. :-) -- UUCP: {ames,decwrl,prls,pyramid}!mips!earl USPS: MIPS Computer Systems, 930 Arques Ave, Sunnyvale CA, 94086